Combined lister and drill



(No Model.) 7 L. KIRLIN.

COMBINED LISTER AND DRILL. No. 274,004.- Patented Mar. 13,1883.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LINDEN KIRLIN, or WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS.

)COMBINED LISTER AND DRlLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,064, dated March 1.3, 1883.

Application filed April 30, 1881. (No model.)

To' all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, LINDEN KIRLIN, a citi-. zen of the United States, residing at White Cloud, in the county of Doniphan and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lister Seed-Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beingha-d to the accompanying d rawings, and to letters of reference marked there- 0n,'which form a part of this specification.

. This invention relates to lister seed'planters of that class in which the drive-wheel is carried in frontof the plow; and the principal objectof the invention is to render this class of planters operative in rough ground by pre venting the drive-wheel from affecting the unilbrm depth of operation of the plow; and to this end. mainly, and to others secondarily, the invention consists in constructions and combinations hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of parts seen with a portion of the nearest beam and its hanger and part of one bar E removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation in the line as a: in Fig. 1. Figs.3and 4 are details.

Referring to the drawings by letters, the same letter indicating the same part in the dilferent figures, A represents an ordinary lister-plow, or plow with a double rnoldboard, B, handles (3, coverer D, double beams A A, and draft-clevis a.

E. is a swing ng frame, formed of parallel bars E, hinged at their rear ends to the beams A by a bolt, 6, or any suitable hinge device, at a point near the seed-box F, which box F is shown fixed upon the beams A, but may, if preferred, be fixed upon the swinging frame E. A seed-tube, f, leads in the ordinary manner from the seed-box to the ground in front of the covering-shares D.

G is the drive-wheel, journaled near the front end of the frame E, between the bars E. lhe gear mechanism between the wheel G and longitudinal slot, 71..

I I. are shouldered stops, which may be adheld after adjustment respectively by bolts H, which pass through holes in the stops 1 I and through the slots h. A short stud, 0, projects from each bar E into the slot h in the adjacent hanger H.

in operation the forward end of the frame E is held in place laterally by the hangers H, while it swings freely in a vertical plane, and thereby permits the wheel G to rise and fall over uneven ground, roots, stalks, and other things, without affecting or disturbing the plow, by raising the forward end of the plowbeams. The extent to which the wheel G may rise and fall relatively to the plow-beams is adjusted by adjusting the steps I I. The upper stops, 1, may be adjusted to regulate the extent to which the front ends of the plowjusted higher and lower on the hangers H, and

beams may descend, and thereby, to a certain t extent, regulate the depth to which the plows may operate, and to increase the capacity of the stop lin this respect it is slotted, as shown at Fig. 4.

By adjusting the stops l I the frame E may be made rigid when desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi 1. In a lister and planter, in combination with a lister-plow having double beams A A, t

a frame, E, hinged at. its rear end between said plow-beams, in front of the plow, and provided at its forward end with a drive-wheel,

adapted to rise and fall over uneven ground, the slotted brackets H, adapted "to sustain frame E laterally, and to permit it and wheel G to rise and fall in operation in planting, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination, substantially as deQ 

